Lord Chelmsford presenting colours to the 5th Calcutta battalion.

The arrival of General Sir Edmund Allenby, the new commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, in Cairo, 27 June 1917.

Allenby's train pulls in to the station and he gets down to meet with some civilian ...

French newsreel of the French contribution to the Sherifian revolt in Arabia, November 1917.

Before leaving from Port Said, Colonel Brmond, the head of the French mission to the Hejaz forces, is made a Commander ...

I. French newsreel item on Japanese marines at Port Said, Egypt, November 1917.

The marines, part of the Japanese destroyer flotilla assisting in anti-submarine patrols in the Mediterranean, are rowed ashore from ...

Scenes of Bethlehem, Solomon's Pool and Jerusalem, including General Allenby's visit to Bethlehem on Christmas Day, Palestine Front, 1917.

I. A long sequence of 2/4th Battalion, the Dorset Regiment, with its band ...

British guns and forces on the Salonika Front, probably early 1917.

An Indian mountain battery with 10-pounder mountain guns. A British 2.75-inch mountain gun (?) dug in on a hillside under scrim netting. ...

Section only, dealing with Canada. Scenes in Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Winnipeg, Saskatoon. Cowboy breaking a broncho at Calgary.

Scenes in Jaffa under British occupation, Palestine Front, probably late 1917.

A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being ...

I. The film follows the construction of the bridge by the divisional sappers from first start in the early morning mists to completion and the first ammunition mules making the crossing.

II. A captured German 77mm field gun is used to shell ...

Jumbled material of the British capture of Jaffa, Palestine Front, November 1917.

I. Troops and transport camels of 52nd (Lowland) Division in the streets of El Mejdel (captured 9 November) including the well inside ...

ACTUALITY. The arrival in Calcutta of a Handley Page aircraft after the flight from England.

Main title (7). "The arrival in Calcutta of the Handley Page biplane" (13). LS of the biplane in flight (30). The biplane lands and taxies to a ...

A history of the Great War, focussing on troops from the Empire.

An opening title outlines the scenes depicted within the film - 'Canadians to Salisbury Plain, England. Indians to Marseilles, France. New Zealanders ...